Butterfly stamping in gray/grey, black, pink and blue

Figured I might as well show the second version of my butterfly stamping manicure (which I showed you yesterday) too. I decided to make a gradient i black over the accents and then do a stamping in black, creating a disappearing pattern. And then a butterfly in each color on top. Then I liked this version better but today I liked my other version better. XD Which one did you like best?

Polishes and materials used:
La Femme (gray creme)
Kleancolor - Yogurt Raisins
Kleancolor - Black
MoYou special pink polish
MoYou special blue polish
MoYou N07 Image Plate 
MoYou rhinestones 2 MM in light pink and blue

If you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use the code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

***Some products in this post have been provided for review***

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Butterfly stamping in gray/grey, pink and blue

Yesterday it was 19 degrees in the shadow and I saw a the male version of a Common Brimstone (what we in sweden call Citronfjäril). Inspired by that I decided to bring out some photos of some of my first successful stamping attempts with my MoYou stamping kits (photos from September last year). As I've told you before I was happy to receive some plates, stamping polishes, stamper and scrape from MoYou to try out. Since then stamping has been so fun! I like the mix of colors and even though the butterflies aren't aligned perfectly I'm still very happy with this. This is also from my first attempts with my (then new) camera (canon 550d), before I only used my phone so below are a mix with both camera and phone photos. (I'd say that my phone did a quite good work producing pics, below it's not overly obvious to know which are done with phone or camera. Take a guess if you like ;) Now the lens on my phone is scratched so I can't even if I wanted to take photos with it.)

Polishes and materials used:
La Femme (gray creme)
Kleancolor - Yogurt Raisins
MoYou special pink polish
MoYou special blue polish
MoYou N07 Image Plate 
MoYou rhinestones 2 MM in light pink and blue

And as you can see I have another version of this mani (the one below) which I'll show more photos of soon. :)

If you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use the code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

***Some products in this post have been provided for review***

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NCC presents: Pusheen Cat nail art

Time for my second post for this month for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. The theme is animals as you might has seen in my first post. Just for fun I decided to follow the cartoon style I started by the first post and decided to make the Pusheen cat. If you don't know what the Pusheen cat is, it's an emoticon for fb and I decided to make Pusheen as an accent with a pink balloon. The other nails got a gradient in a bright teal and light gray and then an inverted glitter gradient in b&w on top + a pink pearl rhinestone at the bottom to bring all the colors together in a nice way. Quite happy with this, hope you like it too. :)

Polishes used:
 Ztiz (black creme)
KIKO - 854 (light teal green)
KIKO - 329 (light gray)
La Femme (gray creme)
FACE it (black and white glitter)
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White
L.A Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink
2 MM pink pearl rhinestones

An InLinkz Link-up

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Valentine needle dragging hearts

Happy Valentine's day! Today I have another Valentine nail art to show. It's not the one I'm wearing today (that one I can't show yet because its part of a competition) but it's one I had on earlier. I decided for glittery red hearts on a gray base. And as usually I went for a technique I find simple, which is needle dragging. I used an actual needle for this (usually I often use a dotting tool with a fine end) and I think it's an advantage using a needle when making tiny hearts like this. I did three-in-a-row on all fingers except my accent's where I made some random hearts and I also did a small stamping on one of my nails. What do you think?

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP34
La Femme
MoYou special red polish
MoYou N07 Image Plate

If you buy a nail art set, any of you choice, you can pick one polish OR one image plate of your choice if you use the code CEL246. Which polish or the number of the image plate you want, you write at the comment section at the checkout. You can use the code as many times you want, as long as you buy a nail art set. :D

***Some products in this post have been provided for review***

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NCC presents: 30's wallpaper yellow rose nail art

I guess I'm cutting it short showing you the last of the four theme challenges post the 31st of January, but that still counts. ;) As you might know by now I've joined the nail challenge collaborative where we show four nail art's according to a specific theme each month.

This month the theme is wallpaper and as I said in my first post I decided to do a little "history lesson", doing my nail art's inspired by the wallpaper/interior designs of certain decades, going back in time. My last post was inspired by the 50s and today I'm showing a 30s wallpaper nail art.

Source 1 (refrigerator), Source 2 (yellow roses), Source 3 (pink roses)

I decided to skip the traditional art deco style which also was popular during the 30 and fell for these rose patterns. I decided for a gray base where I did a saran wrap with two gray polishes. Then I freehanded yellow roses. As the middle picture I decided for orange shadows in the roses and I also drew some leaves. Basically I'm pretty happy with the result, it looks like a painting in some ways because it's not so detailed. Also, much as a wallpaper I think it look the best from a distance, when I'm looking really close I think it looks weird. :P

Polishes used:
La Femme (gray)
KIKO - 329 (light gray)
KIKO - 368 (orange)
Essence - Love Is In The Air
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White

An InLinkz Link-up

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NCC presents: 50s wallpaper nail art

Time for my third nail challenge collaborative post this month with the theme wallpaper. And as I said in my first post I decided to do a little "history lesson", doing my nail art's inspired by the wallpaper/interior designs of certain decades, going back in time. My last post was a 70's wallpaper nail art and next leap is into the 50s.

Source 1 (wallpaper pattern), Source 2 (yellow kitchen)

Well, obviously the 50s wasn't all yellow, I just happened to fall for that and I liked the pattern. The yellow kitchen is from 1959 and the wallpaper there is actually chickens. I also saw a blue kitchen in the same tone.

Basically I used the pattern from the wallpaper, yellow base, stripes and dots in white and gray, which looked kinda graphical and cool. The photos came out kinda weird (think it was dark when I took these) but overall I like this.

Polishes used:
Essence - Love Is In The Air
La Femme (gray)
Kleancolor - White
Jordana Pop Art - Contemporary White

An InLinkz Link-up

So what do you think? Anyone with knowledge from the 50s, did you see any yellow styling back then and also do you recall any other colors, color tones at that time? :)

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